Editorials

From plastic pollution to extreme weather and the extinction crisis, the year ahead promises tough fights, enormous challenges and critical opportunities.

2021 brought coverage of a wide range of amazing wildlife, along with the threats they face and the solutions to saving them.

Our experts weighed in on hot topics ranging from plastic pollution to the extinction crisis.

From wetlands restoration to conservation dogs and the decline of fossil fuels, these tales set the stage for the year ahead.

Conservationists, activists, scientists and other experts offered their insight into the year’s most pressing issues.

The slow-moving coup threatens not just democracy but meaningful action on climate, extinction and environmental justice.

Are you angry about the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 other species? Good. Use it.

To stay or to leave in search of safer ground makes me wonder how we determine risk in a world that’s so rapidly changing.

Climate change came for Portland, showing us that the worst is already here — and we can’t afford to ignore it any longer.

We’re just getting warmed up.